OH MY GOSH! Road Warriors Day Five!

I dare you.

Tuesday, 8/7/12.

Up early… Well, not really. We’ve pretty much been up early everyday. We, as in Jen, Dave and Charlie. Morgan is working on pushing the weekly average night’s sleep to 15 hours. Today’s 7 am roll call might have cut it down to 14.

We ate a quick breakfast of [...]

I’m Re-Training My Bladder

no, I'm not going to post a picture of me with my legs crossed. sorry.

Yep. You read that right.

I’m re-training my bladder.

I had my annual check up a few months back and was told by my darling 30-ish nurse practitioner, Kristen, that — not to worry! –my little problem was a simple matter of re-training my bladder.

Like my naughty German Shorthair, Lola, it seems I [...]

A Menke Christmas Retrospective

Frost on Pine

Christmas Cards, Years 1995 – 1999 aka, the baby years…

So, unto me, a child was born. It took me about, oh… 4 or 5 years, but I finally learned what God had set out to teach me. And that was/is: Jennie is not the most important person on this Earth.

I continue to [...]

Braised Lamb Shanks with Polenta

Finally Found Some Lamb Shanks to Cook.

Unfortunately, the only way I could find lamb shanks were to buy them while still attached to the entire animal. I know, I know. Darling, soft, fuzzy lambs should not be eaten.

I know!

But we love lamb. I’m sorry, we just do. And buying it in [...]